Human Systems Engineering, PhD

Arizona State University - Kaplan International

Human systems engineering is a growing transdisciplinary field that consists of the disciplines of psychological sciences and engineering. This field explores how people interact with technological and social systems in contexts that include transportation, medicine, military, computing and other complex systems. The Doctor of Philosophy program in human systems engineering is designed to ensure that graduates are well-grounded and skilled in the methods of human systems engineering. The program broadly pulls from the areas of human factors and cognitive science. Human factors provides training in the foundation for the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes and systems. Cognitive science provides the foundation necessary for integrating human capabilities and limitations into complex sociotechnical systems (i.e., the practice of cognitive engineering), and the application of cognitive science relies heavily on human systems engineering techniques. A large domain exists in which the combination of human factors and applied cognitive science with a systems approach is imperative for the design of complex sociotechnical systems.

Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering